West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-07-07

tneH, u hunter through the trees gets a
momentary sight of partridge or roebuck
The trouble is we are waiting Tor the game 10
come 10 US. We are not good hunters We
arc standing i'm Schermerhorn street. expect-
ing that tue timid antelope will come up
anu eat out OF our hand We are expecting
that the prariefowl will light on our
church-Steeple. 10 is not their habit III
the Church should wait ten millions of years
Tor the world 10 come in and be saved IL will
wait IN vain. The world will not come
What the Church wants now Is 10 lift their
feet from damask ottomans, and put them i'm
the stlrrups We want a pulpit on wheels
The Church wants not so much
cushions aS II wants Saddle-bags and arrows
We have got 20 put aside the gown and the
KID gloves, and put on the hunting shirt
we have been fishing long in the brooks
/ that run under the shadow of tho Church
that the fish know us, and they avoid the
NOOK. mud escape as soon as we come 10
the bank, while yonder is Upper Saranac and
Big Tuppers Lake, where tho first swing of
/ tho Gospel net would break il for the multi
tuue oil the fishes There is outside work TO
DE done What Is that see in the la X
woodsf IL is n tent. The hunters
nave made clearing and camped out
what do they care IL they have
Wet ieet or If they have nothing
Out pine branch for pillow, or for the
northeast Storm III a moose i'm the darkness
steps into tho lake 20 drink. they hear il right
away. II loon cries in the midnight. they
near IT, 80 IN the service OF God we have
and rough it. We are putting all our care
on tho seventy thousand people of BROOKLYN
VINO they say como TO church What nre
We doing Tor the seven hundred thousand
\ that do not comet Have they no soulsi Arc
they sinlCSs that they need no pardonY Are
! there no dead i'm their houses that they need
\ no comfort Are they cut or from God 10 GO
/ INTO eternity-no wing % bear them, no light
/ Cocheer them, no welcome TO greet theml |
/ near today surging up from the lower depths
\ OF brooklyn groan that comes through our
/ Christian assonblages and through our
Christian churches; and Il blots out all this
/ scene from my eye TO day, rs by the mists of
/ great Niagara, for the dash and the plunge
\ OF these great torrents OF life dropping down
INTO the fathomles5 and thun lerns abyss of
suffering ana woe sometimes think that
Just as God blOttad out the Church of
I lhyatira and Corinth and Laodicea, because
OF their soth and stOlidity. He will blot ont
American and English Chrtianity, and raise
on the ruins stalwart, wide awake mission
airy Church, that can take the fun meaning
OF that command: 'GO into all the world
and preach the Gospel 60 every creature. He
that believeth and is baptized shall be saved
and he chat belleveth not shall be damned
remark, further, il you want 20 succeed
On Gospel hunting you must have courage III
the hunter stand with trembling hand or
shoulder that finches with fear instead of
ms taking the catamount, the catamount
takes him. What would become of the Green
lander If, when out hunting for bear, he
should stand shivering with terror on an ice
bergi What would have become of Du
Chaillu and Livingstone in the African
thicket, with faint heart and a week kneel
When panther comes within twenty PAGES
or you, and 1t has it's eye on you, and Il has
squatted for the fearful spring, "Steady
there
Courage, o we spiritual huntersl There are
great monsters of iniquity proving all around
about the community. Shall we not i'm the
strength of God go forth and combat them}
we rot only need more heart, but more back
Done. What Is the church Of God that il
should fear TO look in the eve any transgres-
sionf There is the Bengal tiger of drunkenness
that prowls around, and instead of attacking
H. now many OF us hide under the church
pew or the communion tablet There is so
much invested in il we are afraid To assault
it; millions of dollars in barrels, in watts in
splgots, in corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and ltalian-top tables, and
chased ice coolers, and in the sti yChnine and
the logwoOd, and the tartaric acid, and the
nux vomica, that go to make up our "pure
American drinks. / looked with wondering
eyes on the . Heidelberg tun." 1t is the
/ great liquor vat of Germany, which is said to
hold eight hundred hogsheads of wine and
only three times in a hundred years has it
been filled But, as 1 looked at it /
SAID 70 myself; That is nothing
eight hundred hogsheads. Why, our Ameri-
can vat holds four million FIVE hundred thou
sand barrels of strong drinks, and We keep
three hundred thousand men with nothing to
/ do but 10 see that it is filed Oh, to attack
kindred monsters of fraud and uncleannpss
requires You 10 rally all your Chritians
courage. Through the press through the
pulpit, through the platform, you must as
sault II. Would 10 God that all our Ameri-
can Christians would band together not for
crack Drained fanaticism but for holy Christ
ian reform. / think il was i'm l1g3 that there
went out from Lucknow, India, under the SOW
erelgn' the greatest hunting party thatwas ever
projected. There were 10000 armed men in
/ that hunting party. There were camels and
/ horses, and elephants On some, princes rode
and royal ladies, under exquisite housings
and five hundred coolies waited upon the
/ train, and the desolate places Of India were
/ invaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
nOcerOS, and deer, and elephant fell
under the stroke of the sabre and bullet
After n while the party brought back
trophies worth fifty thousand rupees having
left the wilderness OF India CHASTITY with
the slain bodies Of wild beasts Would to
/ God that instead Of here and there a strag-
gler going out TO fight these great mon
sters OF inlquity TO our country, the
million membership of our churches would
band together and hew in twain these great
crimes that make the land frightful with
their roar, and are fattenng upon the bodies
and souls of immortal men Who is ready
for such party as thatH Who will be "A
mighty hunter for the Lord
! remark again: II you want to be success
tul IN spiritual hunting, you need not only
10 bring down the game but bring IL in I
think one of the most beautiful pictures of
Thorwaldscu is his Autumn" IL repre-
sents sportsman coming home and standing
under a grapevine. He has q staff over his
shoulder, and on the other end Of that
staff are hung a rabbit and brace Of birds
Every hunter brings home the game. No one
would think Of bringing down reindeer or
whipping up stream for trout aud letting
them lie IN the woods AZ eventide the camp
Is adorned with the treasures OF the forest
beak and fin, and antler
III you 90 out % hunt for immortal souls
not only bring them down under the arrow
Of the Gospel, but bring them into the Church
+ Of God. the grand home and encampment we
have pitched this side the skies. Fetch them
IN, do not let them lie out in the open field
. They need orr prayers and sympathes, and
help. That is the meaning or the Church OF
GOd-help. Oh, We hunters for the Lord not
only bring down the game, but bring IL in
II Mithrdates liked hunting so we'll that
Tor seven years he never went In doors, what
enthusiasm ought we ~ have who are hunt
ING Tor immortal souls IL D0mitan uracticed
archery until he could stand n boy down Inn
The Roman amphitheatre with q hand out.
the fingers Outstretchcl, aud then the King
could shoot nm arrow between the fingers
without wDunding them, 30 what drill and
W nt pra tiee ought not w8 to subject our
selves IN order to herome spritud archcrs